Kite
December 1st, 2021, Broadway Gallery, NYC
Kite aka Suzanne Kite is an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with a BFA from CalArts in music composition, an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School, and is a PhD candidate at Concordia University. Kite’s scholarship and practice highlights contemporary Lakota epistemologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance. Recently, Kite has been developing a body interface for movement performances, carbon fibre sculptures, immersive video and sound installations, as well as co-running the experimental electronic imprint, Unheard Records.
Kite has also published in several journals and magazines, including in The Journal of Design and Science. (MIT Press), where the award winning article, “Making Kin with Machines,” co-authored with Jason Lewis, Noelani Arista, and Archer Pechawis, was featured. Currently, she is a 2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar, a 2020 Tulsa Artist Fellow, and a 2020 Women at Sundance x Adobe Fellow.
From December 3-12 her work will be on view at PS122 Gallery organized by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road), an installation and performance represents the culmination of Kite's year-long research project Wówasukiye waŋží ahóuŋpȟapi kte (There is a rule that we must observe). Produced at the invitation of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics as part of its 2020–2022 As for Protocols focus theme, the project considers the ethical creation of artwork using Artificial Intelligences through the development of protocols based on Lakȟóta ontologies.
